How to Remove AVG 2014’s File Shredder options from the Windows Context menu. With AVG 2014, AVG Technologies has introduced File Shredder feature, you can see its option on File and folder context menus in Windows. Selecting this option permanently and securely deletes the file from hard drive, and it can not be recovered by advanced recovery tools.

Warning: This removes ‘Scan with AVG’ entry from the Context menu too, if you don’t want that to happen, then don’t follow the below method.

You can notice Permanently shred with AVG option on the file context menu and “Shred content with AVG”on Recycle Bin’s right-click Menu. If you neither want to use AVG Shredder, nor want these options to appear in context menu, you can easily remove them.

To Shred a file with AVG, right click on a file and select “Permanently shred with AVG”, warning dialog appears on the screen with message” Shredding will securely delete the file to make recovery impossible”, click on ‘Shred it ‘ button to delete it.

Similarly, you can also Shred Recycle Bin contents by selecting “Shred content with AVG” option.

2. Type cd/ and press enter, now the command prompt should be showing C:>only

Now use the following command

For 32-bit :

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG2014\avgse.dll"

For 64-bit:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files (x86)\AVG\AVG2014\avgse.dll"

3. Dialog appears on the screen confirms avgse.dll file, AVG Shell Extension which is responsible for these on context menu has been successfully unregistered.

4. That’s it! AVG’s Shred options have been removed from the Context menu, which you can check, and confirm.

Do let us know, if you’ve any questions in comments.

Update: Replaced smart quotes with straight quotes in commands and I am suggesting you to backup avgse.dll to another folder on your computer before running those commands. So that you can always get back those context menu entries by pasting that file in path mentioned above.

Sorry for that, I didn’t noticed about that. If I’ve known about that I could’d warned about the same in the article.
But I tried other tools and they also remove all AVG context menus including scan with. So If I find way to remove shred items only I’ll definitely update the article for sure.

The module “”C:\Program” failed to load.
Make sure the binary is stored at the specific path or debug it to check for problems with the binary or dependent .DLL files.
The specified module could not be found.

Yeah, I went to the path myself to check, and I’ve tried running cmd as administrator, but then the path would be C:\Windows\System32
Thanks for your help

Venkat eswarluSeptember 17, 2013 @ 7:30 pm

You’re most welcome Mohamed.

KennethSeptember 21, 2013 @ 1:11 pm

Thanks for this!

I had the same issue as Mohamed – I had to replace the quotes after copying. Also I had to add a space in the 64bit path, between the Files and (x86):
regsvr32 /u “C:\Program Files (x86)\AVG\AVG2014\avgse.dll”

Thank you.. your info above allowed me to FINALLY figure out that this new “..Shred with AVG” option was conflicting with my Adobe Photoshop file explorer window in the Save/Open dialogue. After months of trying to figure this out, this is definitely the solution. Once I turned that AVG Shell Extenstion off (/u) I am now able to right-click files in Photoshop again without it crashing… hooray!

Thank you for the delete of shred with AVG. The first time I ran it, my cut&paste had smart quotes (duh). Worked the second time when I changed back to normal quotes. I hate when programs give me useless frills for which I have no use . Thank you again for the heads-up o the quotes.

As AVG says you can’t recover a file when you shred it, so there is no way you can unshred a file, best thing user can do simply delete the file, then it can be recovered by free and paid recovered tools available on the internet.